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The deparment of Defense released their annual report on recruitment in U.S. high schools over the last year.

But the data has raised a number of questions for privacy advocates-including whether a military test administred to high school students is considered voluntary, and which information can be passed on to military recruiters without parental consent.

The war on poverty was launched fifty years ago this week by Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 state of the union address. For an update on the effort, KBOO’s Joe Meyer spoke with Jill Quadango of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

More than one thousand mostly small nonprofit groups work in local communities across Oregon to preserve their area's history. A new Oregon Heritage Plan, now up for public comment, is a way to prioritize and coordinate those effots statewide.
KBOO reporter Barbara Nelson has more, in collaboration with Oregon News Service.

The Federal Aviation Authority has named three sites in Oregon among the list of places to be used for testing drones. Robin Ryan speaks to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, and Becky Strauss of the ACLU of Oregon, for more.

Last week, the Portland City Council passed a collective bargaining agreement between the city and the Portland Police Association, as well as an agreement between the city, the police bureau and the union on reforms called for by the U-S Department of Justice. A fairness hearing before a federal judge will be held on February eighteenth at which members of the community can make their voices heard.
KBOO spoke with Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch for more on problems with the agreement and how people can get involved.

California's School Success and Opportunity Act, which puts into law the right of transgender students to use school restrooms and join sports teams according to their gender identity, will go into effect on January 1. However, a conservative coalition called Privacy for All Students has submitted signatures to put a repeal on next year's ballot, in which case the law would be suspended. KBOO spoke with Masen Davis, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, for more.

A tribal ceremony took place in Pendelton on December 23 on the route of the Alberta tarsands megaload.
The coalition of indigenous people from across the Northwest were joined by other activists who oppose moving extraction equipment to Canada through Oregon.
Many people question the Oregon Department of Transportation decision to issue permits to a Hillsboro-based company to transport massive pieces of oil extraction equipment across Oregon.
The equipment is on its way to Canada, where it will be used in Alberta to extract tar sands that will then be shipped by pipeline through the U-S for export.
Protests over the last several weeks delayed the first of three planned ‘megaload’ shipments, with some protesters chaining themselves to the truck to try to stop the load from moving forward.
The first megaload did manage to pass out of Oregon and into Idaho, but two more loads have already received their permits.
The confederated tribes of the Umatilla have lodged a formal complaint with the Oregon department of Transportation that they were not consulted before the permits were issued.
KBOO reporter Paul Roland was on the scene for a live report.